On the Sunday before Michaelmas Eve, people of all ages at Kingston upon Thames cracked nuts in church, loudly enough to disturb the service. Hazlitt took this from Brayley and Britton’s history of Surrey.
Crack-Nut Sunday at Kingston
the first Sunday on or after 21 September · Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
No longer kept
The Sunday next before Michaelmas Eve. The practice was carried on in Church by all ages, so as to disturb the service.
From Hazlitt's Faiths and Folklore, vol. 1, p. 152. Read the original
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